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Just before Christmas I visited the Welford Road ground of the Leicester Tigers to view the security and crowd control measures in place on match days.

With the General Election behind us and Boris Johnson forming his programme for the new majority Conservative Government, this seems a good time to sign off from the website and the campaigning for the festive season.

In the General Election of 2019, Labour had a new candidate to defend their majority of 22,000. The Conservatives selected the hard-working local businessman Bhupen Dave as their candidate.

In the General Election of 2019 Labour started with a massive 27,000 majority in Leicester South. Fortunately the Conservative Party selected the excellent Natalie Neale as their candidate.

For the 2019 General Election, the Conservatives chose an excellent candidate for the seat of Leicester West in the shape of Amanda Wright, a county councillor. She had a mountain to climb as Labour MP Liz Kendall had a majority of over 11,000.

During the 2019 General Election, I was delighted to campaign in the Bosworth Constituency in support of Dr Luke Evans who was standing to take over from David Tredinnick as Conservative MP for the area. Dr Luke won the seat with 36,056 votes, or 63.9%, an increase of 7.2% over 2017.

Among the places that I campaigned in during the General Election of 2019 was Harborough, where the excellent Neil O'Brien was restanding.

During the 2019 General Election Campaign I was delighted to go out campaigning with Alicia Kearns, the excellent candidate who was bidding to take over from Sir Alan Duncan. Alicia won the seat with 36,507 votes, or 62.6% of the vote.

I was delighted to go out supporting the magnificent Ed Argar during the 2019 General Election Campaign. Ed won with an impressive 63% of the vote, achieving a swing of 5.5%.

During the 2019 General Election Campaign I was delighted to spend time in Loughborough constituency campaigning for Cllr Jane Hunt, who was standing to take over from Nicky Morgan, who had taken the seat from Labout 2010. Each time I went to Loughborough it chucked it down with rain.